A Note on Song Popularity
Women in the World of Tin Pan Alley
The Twenties. "Sugar Blues" (1918/1923), Lucy Fletcher, lyricist ; "Mexicali Rose" (1922/1923), Helen Stone, lyricist ; "The Down Hearted Blues" (1921), Lovie Austin, composer; Alberta Hunter, lyricist ; "Serenade" from The Student Prince (1924), Dorothy Donnelly, lyricist ; "I Know That You Know" (1926), Anne Caldwell, lyricist ; "Backwater Blues" (1927), Bessie Smith, composer-lyricist ; "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" (1927/1955), Lil Hardin Armstrong, composer
"Can't We Be Friends" (1929), Kay Swift, composer
"It Happened in Monterey" (1929/1930), Mabel Wayne, composer
The Thirties. "Siboney" (1931), Dolly Morse, lyricist ; "Say Si Si" (1936), Francia Luban, lyricist ; "Taboo" ("Tabú," 1934), Margarita Lecuona, composer-lyricist ; "Them There Eyes" (1931), Doris Tauber, composer ; "Accent on Youth" (1935), Tot Seymour, lyricist; Vee Lawnhurst, composer ; "I Wished on the Moon" (1935), Dorothy Parker, lyricist ; "What's Your Story, Morning Glory?" (1938/1940), Mary Lou Williams, composer-lyricist ; "Some Other Spring" (1939/1940), Irene Armstrong Wilson Kitchings, composer ; "I'll Never Smile Again" (1939), Ruth Lowe, composer-lyricist
"My Silent Love" (1931/1932), Dana Suesse, composer
"Willow, Weep for Me" (1932), Ann Ronell, composer-lyricist
"Close Your Eyes" (1933), Bernice Petkere, composer-lyricist
"What a Diff'rence a Day Made" ("Cuando Vuelva a Tu Lado," 1934), Maria Grever, composer-lyricist
"The Way You Look Tonight" (1936), Dorothy Fields, lyricist
The Forties. "How High the Moon" (1940), Nancy Hamilton, lyricist ; "I Dream of You" (1944), Marjorie Goetschius, Edna Osser, composers-lyricists ; "The Man with the Horn" (1945), Bonnie Lake, composer ; "It's a Good Day" (1946), Peggy Lee, lyricist ; "A Sunday Kind of Love" (1946), Anita Leonard, Barbara Belle, composers-lyricists ; "It's Too Soon to Know" (1947), Deborah Chessler, composer-lyricist ; "Scarlet Ribbons" (1949), Evelyn Danzig, composer
"God Bless' the Child" (1940), Billie Holiday, composer-lyricist
"Good Morning, Heartache" (1945), Irene Higginbotham, composer
"Put the Blame on Mame" (1945/1946), Doris Fisher, composer-lyricist ; "Far Away Places" (1947/1948), Joan Whitney, composer-lyricist
The Fifties. "Too Young" (1949/1951), Sylvia Dee, lyricist ; "Twisted" (1952), Annie Ross, lyricist ; "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (1955), Fran Landesman, lyricist
"Just in Time" (1956), Betty Comden, lyricist
"Witchcraft" (1957), Carolyn Leigh, lyricist
"Nice 'n' Easy" (1960), Marilyn Keith Bergman, lyricist
